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NDG Linux Essentials 2.0 Midterm Exam (Chapter 1)

1)The most popular Linux platform for mobile phones is:

1. • Android
   • Slackware
   • BlackBerry
   • IOS
   • MobileLinux
2. The release cycle:
   • Only has meaning for paid software
   • Describes how long software will be supported
   • Should be long so that you have time before you need to upgrade
   • Should be short so you always have the freshest releases
   • Dictates how often software is updated
3. What does a distribution provide to add and remove software from

the system?

3. • Package Manager
   • Application Programming Interface (API)
   • Partitioning tool
   • Compiler
   • Bash
4. A maintenance cycle:
   • Describes how often updates for software come out
   • Should be short so you always have the freshest releases
   • Describes how long a version of software will be supported
   • Only has meaning for paid software
   • Should be long so that you have time before you need to upgrade
5. When choosing a distribution of Linux, you should consider:

(choose five)

5. • Popularity on social media
   • Does the distribution offer a “stable” version
   • Does your organization require long-term support for the system
   • If the application software is supported by the distribution
   • Will users require a GUI
   • Will commercial support be required for the OS
6. Which of the following are examples of desktop software?

(choose two)

• • File share
  • Compiler
  • Music player
  • Web server
  • Web browser

7. Which of the following pieces of software deal with file sharing? (choose three)
   • Netatalk
   • Samba
   • X-Windows
   • NFS
   • PostgreSQL
8. The Linux shell:

(choose three)

8. • Is responsible for tracking the location of configuration files
   • Has a scripting language
   • Has a built-in text editor
   • Is customizable
   • Allows you to launch programs
9. Virtualization means:
   • Many users can share one hard drive
   •         A user can connect to a server over the network and use a virtual console
   • A machine can swap memory to disk
   • A single host can be split up into multiple guests
   • Two users get different memory spaces on the same machine
10. In graphical mode, you can get to a shell by running which

applications? (choose two)

• Gbash
• Guiterm
• Terminal
• Xterm
• console

11. Source code refers to:

• A human-readable version of computer software
• The interface that software uses to talk to the kernel
• The version of a program that the computer runs on the CPU
• The license that dictates how you may use and share the software

12. Open source means:

(choose two)

• You can modify the software’s source code
• You must share your changes
• You must support the software you share
• You cannot charge anything for the software

• You can view the software’s source code

13. A copyleft provision in a software license means:

• You give up your copyright to the software
• You may not link against third party closed source software
• You must provide support for your modifications
• You must provide free copies of the software if you use it
•         If you redistribute the software, you must distribute the source to any changes you make

14. Linux is distributed under which license?

• MIT
• GPLv2
• GPLv3
• Linux Foundation
• BSD

15. Creative Commons licenses allow you to:

(choose three)

• Receive royalties on the use of the work
• Allow or disallow commercial use
• Specify whether or not people may distribute changes
• Get a veto on where the work is used
• Specify whether or not changes must be shared

16. Which environment variable contains a list of directories that is

searched for commands to execute?

• PS2
• PATH
• EXEC
• PS1

17. Select the command that can report the location of a command:

• what
• where
• which

18. A pair of double quotes (" ) will prevent the shell from

interpreting any metacharacter. True or False?

• True
• False

19. The shell program interprets the commands you type into the

terminal into instructions that the Linux operating system can execute.

True or False?

• True
• False

20. The acronym CLI stands for:

• Command Line Interface
• Computer Link Interpreter
• Command Line Interpreter
• Computer Line Interface

21. The most common shell used for Linux distributions is the

                             shell.

• Zsh
• Fish
• Tsch
• Bash

22. Which two pager commands are used by the man command to

control movement within the document? (choose two)

• more
• page
• grep
• less

23. To search the man page sections for the keyword example,

which of the following command lines could you execute? (choose two)

• man -k example
• apropos example
• man -f example
• whatis example

24. The statement that describes the difference between a man

page and an info page is:

•         The man page is a long detailed reference; the info page is very terse.
• There is very little difference between them.
•         The man page is like a guide; the info page is a more concise reference.
•         The info page is like a guide; a man page is a more concise reference.

25. The following sections commonly appear on a man page:

(choose three)

• SYNOPSIS
• NAME
• LICENSE
• DESCRIPTION

26. The top-level directory on a Linux system is represented as:

• /
• /home
• C:
• /root

27. The tilde (~) is used to represent:

• Nothing; it has no special meaning
• Any two single characters
• The directory above the current working directory
• A user’s home directory

28. The cd command by itself will take you to what directory?

• The directory above the current working directory
• None; it is not a valid command
• Your home directory
• The system root directory

29. What command will allow you to change your current working

directory?

• ls
• list
• chdir
• cd

30. The first character in a long listing (ls -l) indicates:

• If something is a file, directory, or symbolic link
• The size
• The permissions
• The owner

31. Which of the following commands can be used to rename a

file?

• rm
• cp
• name
• mv

32. The touch command can be used to:

(choose two)

• Change ownership of a file

• Create new files
• Change a file’s name
• Update the timestamp of existing files

33. Which of the following are glob characters?

(choose three)

• The question mark “?”
• The dash character “-“
• The square brackets “[” and “]”
• The asterisk “*”

34. The main purpose of using glob characters is to be able to

provide a list of filenames to a command. True or False?

• True
• False

35. The asterisk character is used to represent zero or more of any

character in a filename. True or False?

• True
• False

36. Compression of a file works by:

• Removing the high order bit from each byte
• Eliminating gaps within the file
•         Storing most of the data on removable media and just leaving a pointer
• Removing redundant information
• Consolidating multiple files into one

37. Lossy compression:

(choose three)

• Usually results better compression than lossless
• Is often used with images
• Sacrifices some quality
• Is often used with documents
• Decompresses to an identical version as the original

38. Which of the following commands can be used to compress a

file?

(choose three)

• zip
• bzip2
• gzip